I Am Human. And I Want You to Know the Real Me.

I want to tell you something I don't say out loud very often.

I am one person.

Behind every photo of a fluffy puppy, behind every five star review, behind every go home day with the folders and the goodie bags and the happy tears, there is one woman standing in the living room at 2am with a momma in labor, praying everything goes right.

That woman is me. And I am not perfect.

The part you don't see

Most of you see the finished picture. A confident, well socialized puppy who comes home crate trained, already learning where to potty, ready to love your family with everything in their little heart. Families tell me all the time that their puppy came with an amazing foundation.

That foundation is built in the hours nobody sees.

It's built at 2am when a momma needs me and I don't leave her side until every puppy is safe and nursing. It's built in the weeks I barely sleep because a litter needs round the clock care. It's built on days when an emergency vet visit hits like a truck. I've had several of those in the last few months, and some of them came close to ten thousand dollars each. That wasn't even the emergency clinic with the sky high fees. That was my regular vet, doing everything possible to save an animal I love.

Every penny we make goes right back into this place. Into these animals. Into our soil, our home, our kids. We aren't taking vacations. We aren't buying fancy things. We give back to our church when we're able. We've donated puppies as therapy and service dog prospects, and we've donated puppies to be auctioned for friends in our community fighting cancer and for after school programs. This isn't a business I run from a distance. It's a life I live with my whole heart, every single day.

Here's where I owe you honesty

My animals come first. Every time. That will never change, and I won't apologize for it.

But there's a cost to that, and sometimes the cost is you.

I am glued to my phone eighteen hours a day or more. I try to respond to every message, every question, every family. And still, sometimes a message slips through. Sometimes someone waits longer than they should. Sometimes life happens, a puppy needs me, a momma needs me, and by the time I come up for air, days have passed and I realize I never wrote you back.

And I know the hardest place for that to happen is right in the middle of the process, when you've put down a deposit, you're planning travel, your heart is already attached to a puppy, and you just want to hear back from me. That's when silence hurts the most, and I know it's happened.

If that has ever been you, I am sorry. You deserved better, and I mean that.

I'm not sharing all of this as an excuse. I'm sharing it because I would rather you know the real me than some polished version of me. The same care that means your puppy comes home healthy and confident is the same care that sometimes means a text sits unanswered while I'm elbow deep in puppy chaos. I can't separate those two things. They're both me.

What I'm doing about it

I don't believe in naming a problem without fixing it. That's not how I was raised.

So here's what's changing. I am adding someone to my team whose job will be helping me stay on top of your messages and keeping me organized, so no family ever feels forgotten. I already have this person lined up, and I'm working through the final pieces to make it happen. It's one of the most important investments I've ever made in this business, because you deserve the same five star care in your inbox that my puppies get in the barn.

The people who make this possible

I couldn't do any of this without my husband Rick. He pours himself into this crazy passion of mine, and sometimes he needs to step away, handle his own things, or hit the golf course and clear his head. He deserves every minute of it. His love and support hold this whole thing up.

And I couldn't do it without you. The families who trust me with the biggest decision a dog loving home ever makes. The ones who send me photos years later. The ones who come back for a second puppy, or send their mom, their sister, their best friend my way. You are the reason I do this.

Here's the honest truth

I am human. I will drop a ball sometimes. I will need grace, and sometimes I'll need it more than once.

But I will never stop putting these animals first, I will never stop pouring everything I have into every puppy and every family, and I will never pretend to be something I'm not. What you see is what you get. A farm girl with dirt on her boots, a phone in her hand, a barn full of animals she loves, and a heart that's in this all the way.

Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your trust. Thank you for loving these dogs the way I do.

With love from the farm,

Laura